Heating appliance.



A. F. BURDIGK.

HEATING APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION TILED APR. 19, 1912.

1,069,599. Patented Aug. 5, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANo0RAP21 Co., WASHINGTON. u. c.

UNTTEE @FFTQE AUSTIN FREDERICK BUBDICK, OF BELOIT, WISCONSIN.

HEATING APPLIANCE.

Application filed April 19, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUSTIN F. Brannon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beloit, in the county of Rock and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heating Appliances; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to heating appliances.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this character which is designed to be used in connection with a coal-stove, or other similar heater, for collect-ing the heated air arising therefrom, and conveying said heated air into an adjacent chamber or room, for heating the latter.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this character.

which is applicable in connection with stoves and heaters of various kinds.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this character which is adapted to be elevated and supported at a suflicient distance above the floor and above the major portion of the stove or heater, so as to present no obstacle or obstruction in connection with said floor or with the lower portion of the stove or heater.

A still further objectis to provide a device of this character, the major portion of which is easily and quickly removable, when necessary, for cleaning, polishing, or otherwise manipulating the heater.

A still further object is to provide a heat collecting and conveying device, the major portion of which may be folded compactly, for shipment, storage, etc.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character which is neat in appearance, easily and cheaply manufactured, economical in use and thoroughly efficient in operation.

Other objects and advantages may be recited hereinafter and in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the interior of a room having a stove therein and having my improved air heater applied. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au 5,1913.

Serial No. 691,845.

Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, of the collector plates in folded position. Fig. t is an enlarged fragmental detail sectional view on the line 4 1 of Fig. 2, and, Fig. 5 is an elevation view of a separate collector plate, adapted to be used in connection with the hingedly connected plates.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the floor 10 of a room having walls 11 and 12 and a ceiling 18, supports a stove 1 1, of ordinary construction, A stove-pipe 15 extends through a fine hole 16, for carrying off smoke and gases, in the usual manner. The door 17 communicates with an adjoining room 18, and this room 18 also communicates with the first said room through a stove-pipe opening 19, in the wall 12. A hood 20, preferably of pyramidal form, is supported over the stove 14, by any proper means, chains 21 being employed in the present instance. The hood 20 is provided at its top with an opening 22, which communicates with the opening 19, through the medium of a hot-air-pipe 23.

The hood 20 is provided with apertures 24, adapted to engage hooks 25, which are secured to the top edges of trapezoidal collector plates 26, 27 and 28. The top edges of these collector plates are removably s cured to the respective edges of the hood, 20, by the hooks 25, which extend through said apertures 2 1'. The bottom edges of the collector plates are considerably longer than their top edges, while the lateral edges thereof are rectilinear, and diverge downwardly from the said top edges to the said bottom edges. Each of the collector plates might, therefore, be defined as an isosceles trapezoid.

The collector plates 26 and 27 are hinged together at their lateral edges, by any proper means, such, for instance, as rings 80 which engage the apertures 81 in 'the lateral edges of the collector plate 26 and in one of the lateral edges of the plates 27 3 and, while I may also, under certain conditions, hingedly connect the plate 28 with the plates 27, I prefer in the present embodiment of my invention to make the plate 28 separate. This plate 28 is provided with a recess 32, adapted to fit over the stove-pipe 15, at its point of communication with the stove, and I may vary the size and shape of around the stove ll, it is forced upward, by

the cold and heavier air in the room. In other words, the air between the collector plates becomes heated, and a draft is created, in the well known manner, through V the hot-air-pipe 23, and this draft continues so long as the air about the stove is warmer than the other air within the room. It is obvious, therefore, that two adjacent rooms may be easily heated, and in a thoroughly efiicient manner, by means of a device of this character; and the advantages are also obvious, since many adjacent rooms have no communicating door-way, and in many in stances, where adjacent rooms have a doorway by which they may communicate, it is often desirable to keep the door thereof locked or bolted.

WVhen it is desirable to remove the heat collector, consisting of the collector plates 26, 27 and 28, it is obvious that the plate 28 may be raised separately to disengage its hooks 25 from the hood and then, by grasp ing the two plates 27, their hooks 25 may be lifted from the apertures 24: and the collector plates may be easily folded, as shown in Fig. 3.

If desired, the collector plates may be folded together and remain suspended from the hood, by pushing in the lower end of the plate 26, which tilts upward the plates 27, thereby unhooking them from the hood, when they may then be folded upon the plate 26, as in Fig. 3, and in this folded position they may either be lifted from the hood 20, or may be allowed to remain suspended therefrom, by means of the hooks on the collector plate 26, so that coal may be fed into the stove, at its top, in the usual manner, without removing the collector from the hood.

I may, under certain conditions, dispense with the use of the collector plate 28; for instance, when a drum (not shown) is used on the stove-pipe 15, or when the vertical portion of the stove-pipe is quite near the rangement of parts, as herewith described and illustrated, but my invention may only be limited by a reasonable interpretation of the following claims.

It is obvious that other openings and similar air-pipes may be provided, if desirable, for heating rooms other than the one previ ously specified.

WVhat I claim is:

l. A heated air collector and conveyer consisting of a hood and a hot-air-pipe communicating therewith, and a group of collector plates hinged together and having means thereon for removably suspending them from the hood, whereby said collector plates may be easily removed and folded, substantially as shown and for the purpose specified.

2. In a heated air collector and conveyer, a hood having a hot-air-pipe communicating therewith, said hood having apertures near its edge portions, and a group of collector plates having their lateral edges hinged together and having their top edges in detachably hooked engagement with the hood, whereby the collector plates may be easily removed from the hood and folded uponeach other.

3. In a device of the character described, a hood adapted to communicate with the hollow pipe and having apertures therein, and a group of collector plates hinged together and having hooks thereon in removable engagement with the apertures, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUSTIN FREDERICK BURDICK. WVitnesses:

GEO. A. MILLER, E. D. BULLooK.

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